Tatiana V. Favella is a Mexican Portrait Artist born in Baja California, from parents of Italian descent. She finished a career in the Mexican Autonomous University (UNAM), the most prestigious university in Mexico and earned a Master’s degree in Public Health and Medical Administration.For years she worked as an advisor for the Secretary of Health and Assistance, the section of the Government that controls public health matters for all of Mexico. During this time she traveled to several European cities and hat the opportunity to visit the great museums of the world. She became interested in drawing and painting techniques, so she dedicated time to learning these art forms by taking courses in the Academia de San Carlos and later in the Plastic Arts College in Guadalajara, Jalisco. With a natural ability for portrait painting, she focused her efforts in dominating the techniques of this difficult field. It wasn’t until 1992 when she returned to Baja California and established herself with her family in Tijuana, city that shares a border with the United States that she contacted several American artist groups with whom she participated in several exhibitions in several other painting themes, such as Bullfighting, Charreria, Westerns, Figurative Painting, etc. With a growing interest in the techniques of the best portrait painters, she attended several workshops with great contemporary masters in the field, such as Howard Sanden and Raymond Kinstler.Tatiana has painted portraits in several diverse techniques and dimensions of Politicians, Entrepreneurs and cultural figures in Mexico and the United States. She has been a member of several portrait painter associations and has authored two portrait collections: “The Ethnic Groups of Baja California and Southwest of the United States”, an anthropological collections that has been exhibited since 1999 in several Museums and Historical Societies in California, and “The modern Californians” related to public figures of the region, which was sold in 2005. Tatiana is currently starting the oil portraits for her collection “Women of Valor” consisting of 20 portraits and she’s also working on the preliminary sketches for a series of 8 pieces about heroic women in the Mexican Revolution, movement that began in 1910 and ended 20 years later. Tatiana has painted several pieces of Equine art based on photographs from this important time period in the history of Mexico

Escuela de Artes Plasticas de Jal. 1976-78.workshops with watercolorist, oil and other techniques .workshops with Imperial Valley associations.workshops of portrait techniques since 1994 to 2010 and ahead with some of the best portrait artists of USA. Member of Portrait Institute since 2006.